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This is a list of literary awards from around the world. This list is not intended to be complete, and is instead a list of those literary awards with Wikipedia articles.
International awards [edit]
See also: Category:International literary awards
All nationalities eligible (in chronological order) [edit]
- Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901
- Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings – since 1966
- Neustadt International Prize for Literature – since 1970
- Franz Kafka Prize – since 2001
- Man Booker International Prize - since 2005
- KONS International Literary Award – since 2011
Other [edit]
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for children's and youth literature – since 2003
- Balint Balassi Memorial Sword Award for poets and translators – since 1997
- The Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year – since 1978
- Candide Preis - since 1995
- Common Wealth Award of Distinguished Service – since 1979
- Dayton Literary Peace Prize – since 2006
- European Union Prize for Literature - since 2009
- Goethe Prize - since 1927
- Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's literature – since 1956
- International Botev Prize - since 1972
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award – since 1996
- Jan Michalski Prize for Literature - since 2009
- Jerusalem Prize – since 1963
- Montreal International Poetry Prize – since 2011
- Ovid Prize - since 2002
- Paris Literary Prize - since 2010
- Prince of Asturias Awards – since 1981
- Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa - since 2007
Awards by language [edit]
Arabic [edit]
- Etisalat Award for Arabic Children's Literature
- International Prize for Arabic Fiction
- Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature
- Sheikh Zayed Book Award
Bengali language [edit]
- Rabindra Puraskar
- Bankim Puraskar
- Ananda Puraskar
- Sahitya Akademi Award to Bengali Writers
- Bangla Academy Award
Chinese language [edit]
Dutch [edit]
- Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord (Ark Prize of the Free Word)
- Constantijn Huygens Prize
- Gouden Griffel for children's literature (translated works can win a Zilveren Griffel)
- P. C. Hooft Award
- Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren
English language [edit]
- Chancellor's Gold Medal for poetry
- Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for English-language women playwrights
- Lionel Gelber Prize for English-language works that advance debate on significant global issues.
- Warwick Prize for Writing international cross-disciplinary prize awarded biennially for an excellent and substantial piece of writing in the English language, in any genre or form, on a theme that will change with every award
- Truman Capote Award for literary criticism in the English language, administered for the Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
- The Marsh Biography Award awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author and first published in the UK during the two preceding years.
- The Marsh Children's Literature in Translation Award recognises the best translation of a children’s book from a foreign language into English and published in the UK it was designed to spotlight the high quality and diversity of translated fiction for young readers.
- The Micro Award recognises the best short story under 1,000 words published in English during the previous calendar year.
German language [edit]
- Georg Büchner Prize for the overall literary oeuvre
- Sigmund Freud Prize for scientific prose
- German Book Prize for the best German language novel of the year
- Leipzig Book Fair Prize in three categories: fiction, non-fiction, and translation
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
Portuguese [edit]
- Camões Prize
- Prémio Leya
- Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura (from 2007 onwards)
- Prémio Literário José Saramago
Spanish [edit]
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- Rómulo Gallegos Prize
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize – female authors
- Premio Planeta
- Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja
- Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de América de Narrativa
Awards by region [edit]
Commonwealth [edit]
- Man Booker Prize: winners and shortlisted authors
- Commonwealth Writers' Prize
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
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Asian [edit]
Southeast Asian [edit]
Awards by country [edit]
American literature [edit]
See also: Category:American literary awards
- Aga Khan Prize for Fiction
- Ambassador Book Award
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medals in Belles Lettres, Criticism and Essays
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Drama
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction, Novels, Short Stories
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry
- American Book Awards
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
- Arab American Book Award
- Arkansas Arabic Translation Award
- Arthur Rense Prize
- Asian American Literary Awards
- Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature
- Autumn House Press Poetry Prize for a full-length book manuscript
- Autumn House Press Fiction Prize for a full-length book manuscript
- Bancroft Prize
- Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation
- The Best American Poetry series
- Best Translated Book Award
- Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- Bollingen Prize
- Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
- The Dana Award
- Donna J. Stone National Literary Awards
- Edgar Allan Poe Award
- Edward Lewis Wallant Award
- Fabri Literary Prize
- Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
- Forward National Literature Award
- Frost Medal
- Goldsmith Book Prize
- Gregory Kolovakos Award
- Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
- Hopwood Award
- Hugo Award
- James Duval Phelan Award
- James Jones First Novel Award
- James Laughlin Award
- Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize
- The John Esten Cooke Fiction Award
- Joseph Henry Jackson Award
- Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
- Lambda Literary Award
- Lannan Literary Awards
- Mary Tanenbaum Award for Nonfiction
- Michael Braude Award for Light Verse
- Micro Award for Flash Fiction
- National Book Award
- National Book Critics Circle Award
- National Hispanic Cultural Center Literary Award
- National Jewish Book Award, Jewish Book Council
- National Outdoor Book Award
- National Poetry Series
- National Translation Award
- Native Writers' Circle of the Americas
- Nautilus Book Awards
- Nebula Award for Science Fiction
- Newbery Medal
- The New Criterion Poetry Prize
- O. Henry Awards (for short stories)
- Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in Literary Arts or Publications
- Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
- PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
- PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- PEN/Malamud Award (for short stories)
- PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (for diversity and multi-cultural work)
- PEN/Open Book Award (formerly PEN/Beyond Margins, for writers of color)
- PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation
- PEN Translation Fund Grants
- Poets' Prize
- Premio Aztlán Literary Prize – emerging Chicana/o writers
- Publishing Innovation Awards – honoring the most innovative ebooks, enhanced ebooks, and book apps
- Pulitzer Prize for
- Pushcart Prize
- Quill Awards
- Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards
- Robert Olen Butler Prize
- Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
- Scott Moncrieff Prize
- Sherwood Anderson Foundation Award
- Short Story Award
- Spur Award
- St. Francis College Literary Prize
- St. Louis Literary Award
- Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement
- Stonewall Book Award
- The Story Prize
- Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award
- Wallace Stevens Award
- Walt Whitman Award
- William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition
- Whiting Writers' Award
- Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
Australian literature [edit]
Main article: List of Australian literary awards
- Aurealis Award awarded annually for Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction
- The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35
- Miles Franklin Award for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
- Patrick White Award
- Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
- Western Australian Premier's Book Awards
- Victorian Premier's Literary Award
Austrian literature [edit]
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
- Feldkircher Lyrikpreis
- Erich Fried Prize
- Franz Kafka Prize
- Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- Anton Wildgans Prize
Bangladeshi literature [edit]
Botswana literature [edit]
Brazilian literature [edit]
British literature [edit]
Main article: List of British literary awards
- Author's Club First Novel Award
- Betty Trask Award
- Booker Prize
- British Book Awards – the "Nibbies"
- Chancellor's Gold Medal
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Dundee International Book Prize
- Duff Cooper Prize
- Forward Prize
- Hawthornden Prize
- Hessell-Tiltman Prize
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
- John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
- Meyer-Whitworth Award
- Newdigate prize
- Orange Prize for Fiction
- The Orwell Prize
- Samuel Johnson Prize
- Somerset Maugham Award
- T. S. Eliot Prize
- Waverton Good Read Award
- Costa Book Awards
Bulgarian literature [edit]
Canadian literature [edit]
- Arthur Ellis Award
- Booker Prize
- Canadian Jewish Book Awards
- Commonwealth Writers Prize
- Dayne Ogilvie Prize
- Edna Staebler Award
- Geoffrey Bilson Award
- Gerald Lampert Award
- Griffin Poetry Prize
- Governor General's Award
- Journey Prize
- Lorne Pierce Medal
- Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life
- Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award
- Norma Fleck Award
- Pat Lowther Award
- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
- Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
- Scotiabank Giller Prize In 2005, the Giller prize was renamed to the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
- Shaughnessy Cohen Award
- Stephen Leacock Award
- TD Canadian Children's Literature Award
- Trillium Award
- Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
- Winterset Award
- Wright Awards
- Writers' Trust Distinguished Contribution Award
- Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award
- Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction
Central and Eastern European literature [edit]
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Chilean literature [edit]
Chinese literature [edit]
Croatian language [edit]
- Croatia rediviva: Ča, Kaj, Što - baštinski dani
- Nagrada Ksaver Šandor Gjalski
- Nagrada Matice Hrvatske
Czech literature [edit]
Finnish literature [edit]
- Finlandia Prize for literature
- Helsingin Sanomat Literature Prize
- Runeberg Prize for literature
- Thanks for the Book Award for literature
French literature [edit]
- Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française
- Prix Alain-Fournier
- Prix Décembre
- Prix de Flore
- Prix des Deux-Magots
- Prix Femina
- Prix Fénéon
- Prix Goncourt
- Prix Interallié
- Prix Littéraire Valery Larbaud
- Prix Médicis
- Prix Renaudot
- Candide Preis (the only one German-French Literary award)
Georgian literature [edit]
German literature [edit]
- Bertelsmann-Preisausschreiben
- Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis
- Candide Preis, German-French literary award in memoriam of Voltaire's novella Candide
- Carl Zuckmayer Medal, an annual literary prize awarded by the state of Rhineland Palatinate in memoriam of Carl Zuckmayer
- German Book Prize, awarded annually during the Frankfurt Book Fair for the best German language novel of the year
- Georg Büchner Prize, awarded annually by the Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung in memoriam of Georg Büchner
- Goethe Prize, awarded triennially by the city of Frankfurt in memoriam of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Hanseatic Goethe Prize
- Heinrich Heine Prize
- Hans Fallada Prize, a biennial literary prize in memoriam of Hans Fallada
- Heinrich Mann Prize
- Hermann Kesten Medal
- Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (Austrian)
- Kassel Literary Prize
- Kleist Prize
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, an annual science fiction award in memoriam of Kurd Laßwitz, inspired by the American Nebula Award
- Leipzig Book Fair Prize
- Nelly Sachs Prize
- Roswitha Prize
- Schiller Memorial Prize
- Solothurner Literaturpreis
- Toucan Prize
- Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
Hebrew literature [edit]
- Bialik Prize
- Sapir Prize
- Tchernichovsky Prize (for translation)
Hungarian literature [edit]
Icelandic literature [edit]
Indian literature [edit]
Indonesian literature [edit]
Iranian literature [edit]
Irish literature [edit]
Israeli literature [edit]
Italian literature [edit]
- Bagutta Prize
- Premio Bancarella
- Premio Campiello
- Premio Strega
- Premio Urania
- Viareggio Prize
- Flaiano Prize
Japanese literature [edit]
- Akutagawa Prize
- Dazai Osamu Prize
- Edogawa Rampo Award
- Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize
- Izumi Kyōka Prize for Literature (Izumi Kyōka Bungaku Shō)
- Kikuchi Kan Prize (Kan Kikuchi Shō)
- Yukio Mishima Prize
- Mephisto Award
- Mystery Writers of Japan Award
- Naoki Prize (Naoki Sanjūgo Shō)
- Noma Prize for Literature
- Tanizaki Prize
- Yomiuri Prize for Literature
Luxembourgian literature [edit]
Malaysian literature [edit]
Mexican literature [edit]
New Zealand literature [edit]
Main article: List of New Zealand literary awards
Nigerian literature [edit]
- Engineer Mohammed Bashir Karaye Prize for Hausa Writing - for works in the Hausa language[1]
Norwegian literature [edit]
- Halldis Moren Vesaas Prize
- NBU-prisen
- Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl
- Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression
- Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature
Philippine literature [edit]
Polish literature [edit]
Portuguese literature [edit]
Russian literature [edit]
Slovakia literature [edit]
Slovene literature [edit]
- Fabula Award
- Jenko Award
- KONS International Literary Award
- Kresnik Award
- Levstik Award
- Prešeren Award
- Prešeren Foundation Award
- Rožanc Award
- Veronika Award
- Vilenica Prize
South African literature [edit]
- Alan Paton Award
- Alba Bouwer Prize
- Amstel Playwright of the Year Award
- Exclusive Books Boeke Prize
- Maskew Miller Longman Literature Awards
- Percy FitzPatrick Award
- Hertzog Prize
- Ingrid Jonker Prize
- M-Net Literary Awards
- Olive Schreiner Prize
- Sol Plaatje Prize for Translation
- The Sunday Times Fiction Prize
- Thomas Pringle Award
- University of Johannesburg Prize
South Korean literature [edit]
Spanish literature [edit]
- Miguel de Cervantes Prize
- Premio Nadal
- Premio Planeta
- Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja
- Rómulo Gallegos Prize
- Premio Nacional de Literatura
- Premio Azorín
- Premio de la Crítica
- Premi Prudenci Bertrana
Sri Lanka [edit]
Swedish literature [edit]
- Augustpriset
- De Nios Stora Pris
- Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
Swiss literature [edit]
Thai literature [edit]
- S.E.A.Write Award
- Sriburapha Award
- Thailand National Book Award
Turkish literature [edit]
- Erdal Oz Literature Award
- Orhan Kemal Literature Award
- Sait Faik Abasıyanık Literature Award
- Sedat Simavi Literature Award
- Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu Literature Award
Ukrainian literature [edit]
- Shevchenko National Prize since 1961
- Maxym Rylskyi Prize for Literary Translation (uk) since 1972
- Ars translationis — Mykola Lukash Prize for Literary Translation (uk) since 1989
- Hryhoriy Kochur Prize for Literary Translation (uk) since 2010
Venezuelan literature [edit]
Awards by genres [edit]
Children's literature [edit]
- Newbery Medal and Newbery Honor (USA) – since 1922
- Carnegie Medal (UK) – since 1936
- Caldecott Medal and Caldecott Honor (USA) for illustration – since 1938
- Children's Book Council of Australia Awards (Australia)- since 1946
- Governor General's Award for English language children's literature (Canada) – since 1949
- Jane Addams Children's Book Award (USA) – since 1953
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal (USA) – since 1954
- Hans Christian Andersen Award (International) – since 1956
- Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration (UK) – since 1956
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (USA) – since 1957
- Guardian Award (UK) – since 1967
- Coretta Scott King Award for African-American Literature (USA) – since 1970
- Tir na n-Og Awards (Wales, UK) – since 1976
- Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (UK) – 1985-2007
- Children's Literary Classics (International) - since 2011
- Prix Sorcières (France) – since 1986
- Governor General's Award for French language children's literature (Canada) – since 1987
- Bisto Book of the Year Awards (Ireland) – since 1990
- Gelett burgess children's book award (USA) – since 2010
- Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature (USA) – since 1991
- The Eilis Dillon Award (Ireland) – since 1995
- Angus Book Award (UK) – since 1996
- Pura Belpré Award for Latino literature (USA) – since 1996
- Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation (UK) – since 1996
- Children's Laureate (UK) – since 1999
- Michael L. Printz Award for young adult literature (USA) – since 2000
- Sibert Medal for informational books (USA) – since 2001
- Mildred L. Batchelder Award
- Super Dash Novel Rookie of the Year Award (Japan) - since 2001
- Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (international) – since 2003
- The Calistro Prize (Malaysia) – since 2011
Food and drink [edit]
- Langhe Ceretto Prize (international) – since 1991
History [edit]
- Wolfson History Prize - since 1972
- Cundill Prize for historical non-fiction - since 2008
Horror fiction [edit]
- Bram Stoker Award for superior achievement in horror writing - since 1987
Military fiction and military history [edit]
- Colby Award for a first work of fiction or non-fiction – since 1999
- Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing – since 2007
- William Young Boyd Literary Award for a work of military fiction - since 1997
Mystery: crime fiction and detective fiction [edit]
- Agatha Award
- Anthony Award
- Arthur Ellis Awards by the Crime Writers of Canada
- Barry Award
- Best Swedish Crime Novel Award – awarded by Swedish Crime Writers' Academy
- Crime Writers' Association awards:
- Glass Key award
- Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
- Hammett Prize
- Honkaku Mystery Grand Prize - awarded by Honkaku Mystery Writers Club of Japan
- Left Coast Crime awards
- Macavity Award
- Martin Beck Award
- Mephisto Award
- Mystery Writers of America awards:
- Mystery Writers of Japan awards:
- Shamus Award
- Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
Speculative fiction (science fiction and fantasy) [edit]
Main article: List of science fiction awards
- Hugo Award – since 1955
- Nebula Award – since 1965
- Ditmar Award (Australia) - since 1969
- BSFA award – since 1970
- Seiun Award - since 1970
- Locus Award – since 1971
- Mythopoeic Awards – Awards for the best of mythic fantasy, following in the tradition of J. R. R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis – since 1971
- Prix Tour-Apollo Award – since 1972
- John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel – since 1973
- John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction – since 1973
- World Fantasy Award – since 1975
- Paul Harland Prize (Netherlands) - since 1976
- Prometheus Award – best Libertarian SF – since 1979
- Nihon SF Taisho Award – since 1980
- Prix Aurora Award (Canada) – since 1980
- Prix Rosny-Aîné (France) – since 1980
- Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis (Germany) - since 1981
- Philip K. Dick Award – since 1982
- Compton Crook Award – best first time novel in genre in a year – since 1983
- Janusz A. Zajdel Award – (Poland) – since 1984
- Writers of the Future – contest for new authors – since 1985
- Tähtivaeltaja Award (Finland) - since 1986
- Arthur C. Clarke Award – since 1987
- Japan Fantasy Novel Award - since 1989
- Sir Julius Vogel Award (New Zealand) - since 1989
- Urania Award (Italy) - since 1989
- SFRA Pioneer Award – best critical essay length work – since 1990
- Tiptree award – since 1991
- Chandler Award (Australia) - since 1992
- Sidewise Award for Alternate History – since 1995
- Aurealis Award (Australia) - since 1995
- Thomas D. Clareson Award for Distinguished Service – promotion of SF teaching and study, etc. – since 1996
- Endeavour Award (Pacific Northwest) - since 1999
- Nautilus Award (Poland) – since 2003
- WSFA Small Press Award – since 2007
- Tähtifantasia Award (Finland) - since 2007
- Kitschies (UK) – since 2009
Sports [edit]
- General
- William Hill Sports Book of the Year (UK)
- British Sports Book Awards (UK)
- PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing (US)
- Baseball
- CASEY Award (US)
- Jerry Malloy Book Prize (US)
- Seymour Medal (US)
- Dave Moore Award (US)
Biography [edit]
- Marsh Biography Award - awarded biennially for the best biography written by a British author and first published in the UK during the two preceding years.
See also [edit]
External links [edit]
- Complete listings of main literary award winners for all years
- Author Ranking by Literary Awards: ranked lists of authors that received prominent literary award honors
- Graphical Author and Novel Ranking by Literary Awards: graphical ranking of authors and novels that received prominent literary award honors (tabs across the top)
- Book Prize Information: A source of information on book prizes and prizewinning books.
- "The Art of Prize-Fighting", by Tom Chatfield in Prospect Magazine, January 2009. Essay on the history and merit of modern literary prizes.
